Sharon Gilmartin
Deputy Director, Safe States Alliance
2023, 2024
Sharon Gilmartin, MPH, is the Deputy Director at the Safe States Alliance and is located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sharon joined Safe States in 2014, bringing a 15-year background in public health injury prevention, with an emphasis in injury and violence prevention. Prior to coming to Safe States, Sharon was a Traffic Safety Research and Policy Analyst with the American Automobile Association and a Research Fellow at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and her Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Washington in Seattle.
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
